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PAGE 4 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 1959,
The Queen In Canada
“The return of the Head of the Commonwealth to her Canadian territory makes that Kingdom the centre of the Commonwealth of Na- tions for the duration of her re- sidence,” says the London Times in a special supplement commemorating the forthcoming Royal visit to this country, marking the official open- ing of the St. Lawrence Seaway. “It also provides a happy occasion for celebrating the unity in diver- sity of the North American con- tinent.”” These two sentences strike the keynote of an inspiring editorial on our relations to the Crown.
Stressing the value to Canadians of “an honoured symbol to draw their scattered communities togeth- er. and confirm their integral na- tionhood,” The Times says we might have found this in a constitution or a flag; “but these are cold and abstract things, not to be compared with the hold upon the heart of allegiance to a living personality. There is also, however, the danger that the crowned symbolic person- age in whose name the business of state is conducted may herself come to seem a remote image, too far ex- alted to have any reality as the uni- versal representative: The greater the honour paid to the majestic sym- ‘bol of national pride, the greater the need of the people for direct vision of the human being in whom it is
incarnate. Fortunately, Canadians already know their Queen in both aspects.”
Recalling the informality of Her Majesty's first visit to Canada as Princess, and later as Sovereign -when she took her seat on her Canadian Throne in the full emblematie splendour of the state opening of+Parliament, the editorial says the extensive travels she has now undertaken is to give—even in such remote regions as the Yukon, where no reigning monarch has penetrated—a fuller understanding of both aspects, but especially the second. “In the ever-growing com- plexity of modern society, the truth we all need most to comprehend is that the august symbol and the simple person are one, that behind all the elaboration of government the centre and inspiration of it all is a human being like ourselves.”
The supplement carries articles om each of the Canadian Provinces, as well as on the Seaway and the bicentenary of Wolfe and Montcalm at Quebec. A fine portrait of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh is reproduced from a painting by Denis Fildes in the Royal Naval Col- lege, Greenwich.
A Moot Question
The Commons public accounts “committee has no authority over the Canada Council or the $100,- 000,000 it has at its disposal. That, ” at least, is what Anditor General Watson Sellar told the committee members, prompting one of them to ask indignantly: ‘Then what au- thority has this .committee to. ex- amine Council affairs or make recommendations?” Mr. Sellar re- plied soothingly: “You could make recommendations on the legislation setting up the Council.” At the game meeting a Conservative mem- ber observed: “Then the Council is ‘an independent corporation with a former Liberal cabinet minister heading its board of management.” Mr. Sellar is reported as having nodded assent, as indeed he might
for that is Mr. Brooke ‘Claxton’s position. _ This would seem to _ dispose
pretty well of the fiction of the sup- remacy of Parliament. The Ottawa Journal, however, tries to bridge the inconsistency. Parliament, it Says, must exercise its supremacy fn the channels that have been given to it: it should not seek to inter-
_. fere in the administrative processes
which it has itself established. That, course, applies to the CBC and Civil Service as well as the Can- ada Council. It is\a moot question,
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erable controversy during the pre- sent Session. ©. —
As the Journal concedes, there. is nothing wrong in a member of Parliament rising in the Commons or in committee and laying out a
bill of complaint against ' any of
make them. And if they prove is then up to the Gov- ernment to improve the administra- ‘tion of the faulty body. -A vigilant public will note the charges and . note the Government’s reaction and in due course express its opinion at the polls. It is.a round-about pro- cess, but perhaps, after all, it does represent the democratic approach. . But it leaves a good deal of leeway for bureaucratic control, which is the antithesis of democracy.
All-Week Shopping
An interesting point was raised by the Canadian Association of Consumers at its annual meeting recently. Investigations by the or- ganization showed that many shop- pers were poor buyers and did not take advantage of “specials” offer- ed by merchants as an inducement to,spread buying over the week.
This fault on the part of the con- sumers, comments an exchange, is easy to understand. it is a hangover from the days when the family pil- ed into the surrey with the fringe on top (horse-drawn or automotive) to do the Saturday shopping. The family characteristic has been hat- | ed down from generation to gener- ation until we have a situation in which there is one or two “heavy” shopping days in the week. For the other days of the week the custom- ar has the store almost to himself— or herself. —
Merchants with their early -week “specials” are performing a service to the public in trying to educate consumers to be good buyers. It is beneficial to the consumer and the storekeeper to recognize every week- day as a shopping day. Nor can the benefit be overlooked to the employ- ees who are rushed off their feet for
on their hands on other days.
It is not going to be easy to break with tradition, but when it is re- cognized it is to the advantage of the consumer to “spread out” the weekly shoppigg. a _more orderly systein of buying and selling, plus savings in prices, will result.
EDITORIAL NOTES
A fortune teller in Rhode Is- land complained to the police \the other day about something = she | hadn’t foreseen. Someone stole her crystal ball from an amusement
park!
According to Health Minister Monteith in the House of Commons on Menday, a hospital insurance agreement with .New Brunswick is expected to be signed soon. Other provinces that have not signed agreements are Quebec and Prince Edward Island. The programs are under way in the rest of the pro- vinces. This leaves us still wonder- ing how the P.E.I. plan is progress- ing.
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“Those stories about the penur- ious plight of the Ontario Liberal Association,” says the Toronto Tele- gram, “are not likely to bring \salty tears to the eyes of CCF and Pro- gressive Conservative candidates or extra help from the great army of party supporters who part with five dollars or so around ‘election time. Going broke at election time
a Liberal virus. Everyone, it seems,
needs money. If you don’t believe
us, ask your candidate. Lots of
Conservatives are bleating. loudly
for help and we venture to think
that the picture is pretty general.” * * *
According to an Ottawa report, the government has been hit with such a heavy flow of surplus pork that it has run out of storage space for frozen cuts and has been forced back into the pork canning business—the first time this has happened since 1952 when an outbreak of foot-and- mouth disease shattered foreign markets for Canadian meat. At that time, surplus canned.pork was finally. shipped behind the Iron Curtain and sold at a heavy loss. Officials say that some of the current cans may end up in the same way. In addition to some 70. million pounds of frozen cuts, the government will have 25 million pounds of pork in cans by the end of June. This would represent a total federal investment of some $43
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CAN'T KEEP UP WITH IT
OTTAWA REPORT
Mr. Diefenbak
By Patrick
“The recession which started ; te come upon us in late 1956 is now rapidly ceasing to exist,”’ the Right Hon. John Diefenbaker told the annual conference of Cana- dian Mayors and Municipalities at North Bay last week.
With Conservative Government actions substantially remedying the recession spawned during the late Liberal administration, the Prime Minister confidently as- serted that ‘Canada is now ent- ering upon a new period of rapid economic _expansion."’ All the economic indices support Mr. Diefenbaker's confidence: this will be a year of greater pros- perity than last year, while next year promises to be a banner | year.
An audience of 400 convention- ing mayors and over 1,500 on- lookers crowded into North Bay's Memorial Gardens to hear Mr. Diefenbaker speak. He attracted an audience twice the ‘size of that which came to hear Ontario Premier Lesile Frost and T.V. star Bob Cummings the previous evening; while the film ‘South Pacific’ ran third as.an evening attraction for Canada’s assemb- eld mayors.
THE RECORD SPEAKS
“Industrial production in Can-
159.6 in March 1957,"" Mr. Dief- enbaker said. “It declined to 148.6 in December of the same year. Recovery has bropught the index to the all-time peak of 160.9 where it stood in February of this-year. Non-agricultural em- ployment, which reached a peak of 5,031,000 in June of 1957, and dropped to 4,966,000 in February of 1958, rose in February of this year to a new high of 5,129,000 persons with jobs in non-agricul- tural industries. The latest figure | for April of this year shows 5,664,- | 000 persons with’ jobs, 127,000 more than a year ago."
While many workers cannot find jobs unfortunately, we tend to overemphasize the negative by overlooking the truly remark- able achievement that more peo- ple were in jobs in February this year, the month when seasonal unemployment is normally near
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midsummer 1957, the month when ; jobs are normally. most abun- dant. And with 127,000 more peo- ple working in April this year than in the same month a year ago,,haven't we got an impres- sive record of re-employment?
Other statistics giving cause | for optimism to Canadians were--
reported to the Mayors by the Prime Minister.
In the first quarter of this year, mining production was up 5 per cent, industrial production
was up 6 per cent, lumber pro- | duction volume up 6 per cent, |
PUBLIC FORUM
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electrical and gas _ production up 13 per cent; and, taking the last three months available, Feb- ruary, March and April of this year, motor vehicle production was up 19 per cent and _ steel production up 22 per cent. GLOOM DISPERSED
As the Prime Minister declar- ed, these are indeed impressive indicators.
“Perhaps the most striking fac- tor in the present economic cli-
mism which prevails in Canada,” Mr. Diefenbaker said. “The buoyant outlook for increased ac- tivity has apparently affected business. sentiment in Canada, and there are increasing indi- cations from firms all across the
country that:they are revising their capital investment inten- tions upward.”
mate is the new spirit of opti-
It certainly looks as if the Con-
servative Government is achiev-
ing its declared aim to put Canada back on a new plateau of economic stability. Whether or not it can equally achieve its se- cond objective, namely to ensure that inflation shall not harm the purchasing power of our dollar, is something which is less within its power. Short of introducing laws to restrict higher prices, higher profits and higher wages, it appears, alas, unlikely that the Government will be able to halt inflation, for Canadians general- ly seem unwilling to practice the self-restraint which alone will | preserve the purchasing power of our dollar, and which. alone will
compétition with other countries.
The Prime Minister's speech at North Bay grouped together for the first time the incontrover- tible evidence that we are now leaving the recession behind us. Canada’s mayors were given a cheering message to take home to their communities from Van-
couver Island to Newfoundland.
Christian Scie
The biggest fact about Geneva at this moment must be sought elsewhere. That ig the meaning of the last few days of diploma- tie activity on the East-West front. The whole framework of the Soviet offensive that Mr. Khrushev launched last No- vember with his demand for Western withdrawal from West Germany its just now disclosing its real proportions.
The jatter possibility demands as much consideration as the former. In either case, however, the West is up against the fact
The Stakes Grow Bigger
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contained some discussible points; (3) ty Khrushchev’s new threats against Greek and Italian participation in the nuclear de- fense measures of the Western alliance; (4) by Albanian moves to restore good relations with Yugosiavia as erstwhile ailies against the Nazis: (6) by the presence at Tirana of high-deve: Chinese Commumisis as reports circulate Ahat Soviet aid to Com- | munist China has hetped bring | that power to the verge of mem- bership in the ‘‘nuclear club.”
that. Moscow is still taking the initiative. The West's reply is mainly defersive—a local effort at counteroffensive at Geneva, to be sure, but a tactical one. Mr. Khrushchev stili moves on the larger field of strategy. SIGNIFICANT MOVES
These conclusions are prompt- ed (1)’by the gathering of Com- munist world Jeaders at Tirana, AMbania, at the very moment that the Geneva conference moves imto a sticky patch; (2) by the blast that Mr. Khrushchev has loosed from Tirana against the Western proposals for Ber- lin and which seems to cancel al’ Mr. Gromyko’s statements at Geneva that the proposals
Ohinese angles have special portent for a future summit meeting. They therefore have | immediate bearing on the effect- | veness of Western summit dip- lomacy at Geneva.
im the light of Tirana bthe re- ports from Geneva that the West holds a ‘trump card’ in the shape of possible refusal to at- tend a summit meeting appear almost gtib. They may overes- timate Mr. Khrushchev’s contin- ning interest in the summit. CHANGED TACK
After indicating his interest in a United Nations summit meet- ing on-the Middle East less than a year ago, Mr. Khrushchev sud- denly changed his tack after a
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